bought a cheap arbitrary waveform generator and noted that it only had a two-pin power cord. That has its ups...
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Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new...
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming...
Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries...
Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest...
As Ethernet became the world-wide standard for wired networking, there was one nagging problem. You already have to plug in...
The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and...
If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather...
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was...
When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One...
The Unihiker K10 is intended to be a small single-board solution for light AI and machine learning tasks. However, you...
The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance...
Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions....
We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in...
In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org,...
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
While it sounds like the start of a joke, Australian shipmaker Incat Tasmania isn’t kidding around about electric ships. Hull...
Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a...
If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In...
Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was...
We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye...
Try an experiment. Next time you are in a room with someone, ask them to name everything in the room....
There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC...
Superlatives are tricky things. ’s guide “How to make Simplest ever Oscilloscope Clock” falls into that category. It’s that word,...
Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can...
